Day: June 7, 2017

US President Donald Trump called Qatar’s emir Wednesday and offered US help as efforts grew to resolve a damaging feud between the emirate and its Gulf neighbours. A senior Emirati official told AFP that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha.

May has seen her once-commanding lead over the Labour Party and its veteran hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn narrow sharply since she called a snap election in April. But a final round of opinion polls suggested she would increase the small majority she inherited from David Cameron last year.

This town near Varanasi, home to one of the country’s iconic railway junctions, is torn between its allegiance to the two historic figures, after the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday decided to begin proceedings to rename Mughalsarai Junction as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Station.

Key reforms will include barring students from contesting elections on political parties’ symbols, shutting out political parties and leaders from campuses during elections and barring the use of political parties’ posters, banners and festoons. Students will have to contest elections as individuals.

Most private hospital emergency departments are staffed with MBBS graduates lured into illegal courses that claim to be giving a master’s in emergency medicine (MEM). The Medical Council of India has notified all such courses as illegal and hence not to be registered as additional qualification.

The cold war between BJP and Shiv Sena took a new turn on Wednesday when Sena cabinet members boycotted the weekly cabinet meeting to protest against CM Devendra Fadnavis’s “failure” to consult party president Uddhav Thackeray on the striking farmers’ demand for a complete loan waiver.

At least 25 people, mostly labrourers, were killed and eight others critically injured in a major explosion in a firecracker factory in Balaghat district on Wednesday. The injured have been admitted to district hospital and Bhilai in neighbouring Chhattisgarh state.

Whether a meeting materialises between Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif – the government said there’s no proposal yet – the PM’s bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the SCO summit is expected to be a highlight in Astana.

In a direct attack on Mamata Banerjee, BJP on Wednesday questioned the funding of Trinamool Congress, saying it had not accounted for over Rs 24 crore it spent during political campaign in 2013-14. Union minister Piyush Goyal cited reports that said that the Income Tax department had sent a notice to TMC.